| Did you ever wonder where Chamois leather comes from? Well, now you know - it is made from the skin of these mountain-dwellers. The Chamois is a type of antelope, and is both very shy and very fleet of foot. The Chamois has flexible hooves which enable it to gallup up steep rock faces without stumbling and it can climb 1200m/2900ft in an hour (compared to 600m for a very fit man and 1000m for a top mountaineer like Reinhold Messner). | |